Professor Paul Spencer

Pro Vice-Chancellor [Research]

Contact info

Position: Dean of College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Professor

Email: p.spencer@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: (01248) 382738

Location: Room 145, Dean Street

 

Prof Paul S. Spencer received a B.Sc. degree in applied physics and a Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Bath, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he was a research assistant at the University of Bath. In 1996, he moved to Bangor becoming a lecturer in 1998, a senior lecturer in 2003 and receiving a Personal Chair in 2006. In 2007 he was appointed Head of the School of Electronic Engineering, a post he held for seven years. In 2009 he was appointed Head of the College of Physical and Applied Sciences and in 2017 he was appointed Dean of the College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering

His main research interests are semiconductor laser dynamics, optical feedback effects, pulse propagation, and optical waveguide properties of optoelectronic devices. He has been an author on over 100 journal papers and 140 conference papers and is a regular reviewer archival journals. In 2000 he won the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) best engineering poster award.

  1. Published

    Incoherent optical feedback regimes in semiconductor lasers: Theory and Experiment

    Ju, R., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2004.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  2. Published

    Influence of low-frequency modulation on polarization switching of VCSELs subject to optical feedback

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jan 2008, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 44, 1-2, p. 30-35

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    Influence of optical feedback on anticorrelation polarisation dynamics in VCSELs

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  4. Published

    Integrity of all-optical data encryption using chaotic external-cavity diode lasers.

    Sivaprakasam, S., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2001.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  5. Published

    Inverse synchronisation in semiconductor laser diodes

    Sivaprakasam, S., Pierce, I., Rees, P., Spencer, P., Shore, K. A. & Valle, A., 31 May 2001, In: Physical Review A. 64, 1, 013805.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Investigation of polarization bistability in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers subjected to optical feedback

    Hong, Y., Ju, R., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., May 2005, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 41, 5, p. 619-624

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Modeling polarization competition in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with current modulation

    Spencer, P. S., Torre, M. S., Masoller, C. & Shore, K. A., 1 Apr 2007.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Nullified time-of-flight lead-lag in synchronisation of chaotic external cavity laser diodes

    Spencer, P. S., Sivaprakasam, S. S., Rees, P. & Shore, K. A., 14 Oct 2003.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  10. Published

    Optical Chaos Communications using Laser Diodes.

    Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Hong, Y., Pierce, I., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 21 Nov 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  11. Published

    Optical Feedback Applications.

    Spencer, P. S., 1 May 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  12. Published

    Optical chaos communications

    Shore, K. A., Hong, Y., Lee, M. W., Pierce, I., Paul, J. & Spencer, P. S., 1 Aug 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  13. Published

    Optical feedback dependence of anticorrelation polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2006.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  14. Published

    Optical feedback dependence of anticorrelation polarization dynamics in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Hong, Y., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Nov 2006, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 23, 11, p. 2285-2290

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Optical feedback dependence of laser diode relative intensity noise.

    Hong, Y. H., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  16. Published

    Optical frequency-domain ranging using a frequency-shifted feedback distributed-feedback laser.

    Paul, J., Hong, Y. H., Spencer, P. S., Pierce, I. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2007, In: IET Optoelectronics. 1, 6, p. 277-279

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Optical injection control of polarization pulsations in VCSELs.

    Bandyopadhyay, S., Hong, Y., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Oct 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  18. Published

    Optically modulated chaotic communication scheme using external-cavity length as a key to security

    Paul, J., Sivaprakasam, S., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2003, In: Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics. 20, 3, p. 497-503

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Optimization of adaptively modulated optical OFDM modems for multimode fiber-based local area networks

    Jin, X., Tang, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2008, In: Journal of Optical Networking. 7, 3, p. 198-214

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Partial bi-directional coupling of chaotic diode lsers for secure optical communication

    Sivaprakasam, S., Lee, M. W., Paul, J., Spencer, P. S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Mar 2005.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  21. Published

    Photonic biosensors in detection of Haemoglobin and DNA: Invited Paper

    Chen, X., Burt, J. & Spencer, P., 2013.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaperpeer-review

  22. Published

    Polarization-preserved and polarization-rotated synchronization of chaotic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

    Ju, R., Spencer, P. & Shore, K. A., 1 Dec 2005, In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 41, 12, p. 1461-1467

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Polarization-resolved chaos in a VCSEL subject to optical injection.

    Hong, Y. H., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 May 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  24. Published

    Polarization-resolved chaos in a vertical cavity surface emitting laser subject to optical injection

    Hong, Y. H., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S. & Bandyopadhyay, S., 1 Oct 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

  25. Published

    Polarization-resolved chaos in optically injected VCSELs.

    Hong, Y. H., Rees, P., Spencer, P. S., Bandyopadhyay, S. & Shore, K. A., 1 Jul 2002.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper